Automatic syllable detection is an important task when analysing very large speech corpora in order to answer questions concerning prosody, rhythm, speech rate, speech recognition and synthesis. In this paper a new method for automatic detection of syllable nuclei is presented. Two large spoken language corpora (PhonDatII, Verbmobil) were labelled by three phoneticians and then used to adjust t...

We study the rate of Bayesian consistency for hierarchical priors consisting of prior weights on a model index set and a prior on a density model for each choice of model index. Ghosal, Lember and Van der Vaart [2] have obtained general in-probability theorems on the rate of convergence of the resulting posterior distributions. We extend their results to almost sure assertions. As an applicatio...

abstract background: fertility rate apparently is a non-interventional behavior, but in practice, it is infl uenced by social values and norms in which culture and traditional beliefs play a signifi cant role. in this regard, some studies have shown that gender roles can be associated with reproductive behaviors. with regard to the importance of annual reduction of population growth rate and it...

In this paper, we consider First-order fuzzy differential equations with initial value conditions. The convergence, consistency and stability of difference method for approximating the solution of fuzzy differential equations involving generalized H-differentiability, are studied. Then the local truncation error is defined and sufficient conditions for convergence, consistency and stability of ...

Distributed file systems nowadays need to provide for fault tolerance. This is typically achieved with the replication of files. Existing approaches to the construction of replicated file systems sacrifice strong semantics (i.e., the guarantees the systems make to running computations when failures occur and/or files are accessed concurrently). This is done mainly for efficiency reasons. This p...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial job characteristics require nursing staff with high self-consistency and good mental health. However, the attention and effort of such study remained very limited in China. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to the bedside nurses in an affiliated hospital of Hebei Medical University, China. Of 218 registered bedside nurses eligible to participate...

The problem of verifying multi-threaded execution against the memory consistency model of a processor is known to be an NP hard problem. However polynomial time algorithms exist that detect almost all failures in such execution. These are often used in practice for microprocessor verification. We present a low complexity and fully parallelized algorithm to check program execution against the pr...

This paper considers the reliability of software Distributed Shared Memory systems where the unit of sharing is a persistent read-write object. We present an extended coherence protocol for causal consistency model, which integrates replication management with independent checkpointing. It uses a novel coordinated burst checkpoint operation in order to replicate consistent checkpoints of shared...

We present a replication control protocol for distributed file systems that can guarantee strict consistency or sequential consistency while imposing no performance overhead for normal reads. The protocol uses a primary-copy scheme with server redirection when concurrent writes occur. It tolerates any number of component omission and performance failures, even when these lead to network partiti...

Consistency is one of the most important aspects to be considered when designing a Distributed Interactive Application, and particularly in networked Multiplayer Computer Games (MCGs). Several techniques exist which aim to reduce network traffic in an attempt to maintain an acceptable level of consistency. However, these techniques are static in nature, as they do not adapt to the varying netwo...